Reports this week have suggested that the online news
community digg may be suffering abuse at the hands of
a group of users that are burying Digg stories they find
ideologically unappealing.

Rumours are flying around the internet that
these so called "bury brigades" could be more
than just a group of geeky self appointed censors and
that it may actually be Digg themselves, or even agencies
of the government, that are censoring stories and preventing
the information from going viral on the net.

On Tuesday, a bug in the social news site's Digg
Spy tool gave one smart Digger the ability to peer into
the inner workings of the community. Namely, David LeMieux
found
a way to highlight which users were burying stories
on Digg, and why.

The suggestion is that a select group of users are doing
a great deal more burying than anyone else. Obviously
this cannot be proven definitively for the moment, but
it is interesting to note the subject matter of what is
being buried.

The same Wired report mentioned above was submitted to
digg and was immediately buried. Wired then reported that
all similar reports linking to the same issue had also
been buried very quickly, commenting:

Is this a legitimate act of the community, or is
it censorship? Digg does have silent moderators, and there
have always been rumors that they delete or bury submissions
which overtly threaten Digg's reputation. My opinion:
Information wants to be free, and if this is censorship,
then shame on Digg. If the buries came from the community,
I'm curious as to why all discussions related to the bury
problem are themselves buried. Does the community not
want to confront these problems?

It is highly suspicious as to why anyone
would continually go to the trouble of burying these stories.

What is not so hard to believe, however,
is the fact that every major report we have put out on
the 9/11 revelations this week have been instantly buried,
sometimes only a matter of minutes after they have been
submitted.

A cursory search through David
LeMieux' hacked list of buries reveals that many stories
relating to 9/11 have been buried by the same group.

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As soon as a story is submitted, it instantly
goes into the "Upcoming Stories" section on
the digg page. Once it receives enough diggs, usually
around 70, Then It moves up the ranking of the upcoming
stories section and can quickly hit the home page, unless
users choose to digg it down or bury it.

Digg has never revealed exactly how the
bury system works, but they tell us that the number of
reports required to bury is based on a sliding scale that
takes several factors into consideration (such as number
of diggs, reports, time of day, topic submitted to, etc.).

However, this system is clearly flawed as
many of our reports have gone on to receive thousands
of diggs and hundreds of comments AFTER they have been
buried. All this has been of little use because once a
story is buried it cannot be brought back and thus cannot
hit the front page of digg.com and be seen by millions
of readers who do not normally visit Prisonplanet and
Infowars.

Digg's bury system has been accused of being
totally undemocratic because it allows a few users to
prevent the many from reading articles and making their
own mind up on the material.

For a story to be buried after just a few
minutes defeats the whole point of the community and has
thus prompted many users to complain to digg, who have
responded by promising to "look into it".

It seems that the "bury brigades"
are working together and are closely monitoring every
story that is submitted, hitting bury and then "digging
down" all the comments, as soon as they come in,
which is rumoured to bury a story more quickly.

In order to do this, you have to keep refreshing the
page every 2 seconds or so. It is difficult to believe
that someone or some group would dedicate themselves to
doing this without having a purpose behind it, and the
evidence so far suggests that a select few are the ones
doing the burying.

We encourage all of our regular readers to digg down
the negative comments, and digg up 9/11 truther comments,
when submitting to digg. We wait with baited breath to
discover whether this article will also be instantly buried
by the unidentified censors.